There has been a significant rise in the number of Israeli Arab volunteers within the national service program in recent years, but some Arab communities are resisting this trend and, in some cases, launching aggressive campaigns against it. Volunteers are often referred to by their communities as “lepers” and warned that anyone who volunteers will have trouble “finding a mate.”

•NY Times: The resumption of peace talks complicates White House efforts to steer Egypt away from violence. What would happen if the US cut off aid to Egypt, and Cairo responded by saying it could no longer afford to maintain any semblance of order in the Sinai?

Were that to happen, analysts said, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, would face enormous domestic pressure not to make any concessions to the Palestinians, especially on security issues. He probably could not even continue talking to them.

“If the situation in Sinai gets worse, and it starts to affect Israel’s security, then Bibi won’t have the political support to go on with the talks,” said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Egypt and Israel, using Mr. Netanyahu’s nickname.

According to the ‘holy book of islam’, which they all read night & day, they must kill all infidels, Jews & Christians,& any arab who loves, sells, or works with such people. East Jerusalem, what a joke, Jerusalem is the capitol of Israel & has been since King David. Abbas should give back the temple area & move out the puppets form this place. I would have liked to see the buildings last year as a tourist, I was warned, if I go up there they will kill me. There is NO REASONING with these people & that is a crying shame. It is the Moslem ‘leadership’ keeping them in poverty. There are no ‘refugees’, they are citizens of nowhere & that is the doing of the plo.

I think there’s something else that Abbas has in mind. There are close to 200,000 thousadn Arabs living in Judea and Samaria who are considered to be “refugees” (Wikipedia: The West Bank has 19 official camps with 194,514 refugees). Abbas has stated openly that these people will NOT become citizens of any new “Palestinian” state. Instead, they will retain their supposed “refugee status” because they must “return” to what is now Israel (even though the vast majority of them have never set foot in Israel, but owe their status to their great-grandparents).

How can so-called “Palestinians” not be allowed to become citizens of “Palestine”? In the name of destroying Israel, anything is justifiable.

A lot of concesiones have been made by Israel to create peace. ie with Arrafat, to no avail, what is going to be different this time. Most countries lost land after loosing never to regain, why should this be any different.

One can only imagine the world’s reaction if Israel were to make a corresponding proclamation that Israel would not have a single Arab living in it after the settlement. There’s nothing like the good ol’ double standard when it comes to Israel.

Abbas’s choice of the phrase “Final Solution” is a chilling as the concept of o a “Judenrein” State. The question is when Abbas said “Jew Fee” was he referring to just the living Jews or the dead ones as well. Sumeria should always be a part of Israel it was part of God’s gift to the Jewish people, not a temporal asset for use as a bargaining chip by some overly ambitious politician.